H.C.P. "found" two cases of peaches (60 to-day that he "did not know were there". Hence we had some at dinner. I won- der whether he will "find" anything more. - Heard him say too that there were more vegetables than he thought for "enough for four years", and Dr. Hunt and I think that there might be at the rate at which they are being used. Exceptionally fine parhelia this evening at about 9 o'clock. Three are very distinct in the first ring around the moon and the fourth would be there were it not that the ring is intersected by the surface of the bay ice. Outer ring gives hints of three more. 18 March. Saturday. Lightly overcast and hazy